Programs Will Not OPEN!!!

[khopek]

I'm getting fed up with this....
I have been having so many problems on my business computer running XP
Home and Microsoft POS, that I went out and wasted $300 on XP Pro.
Everyone swore this would solve my problems....So I completely
reinstalled the Operating System and reformated the hard drive with 2
partitions this time, instead of one. One partition soley for the OS.

Things worked fine. BUT...since I have employees that use this
computer, I needed to make different user accounts. The MINUTE I did
this, not one single program will open. And if, after 10 minutes
something DOES open, it runs so slow you can't use it and the system
freezes.

The only way I can manage to get programs to run successfully is if I
Click the Program Icon, Right Click, and push 'Run As.' A window will
then pop up asking me;:

"Which user accound do you want to use to run this program?"
1) Current User
2)The Following User:

Underneath option 2 there is a drop down menu of the user accounts on
this computer and I must Click Administrator, then type in the
Administrator password, to get the programs to run.

This is the only way programs will run and it completely defeats the
purpose of user accounts if all my employees have to have the
Administrator password to get anything to work.

Someone please help me. I cannot waste anymore time with this as I was
already down a week with no system and had to completely redo my
inventory because my database was corrupted. Somehow it was not
registering the backups everytime. (Like I said I've been having
horrible problems with XP and Microsoft POS)

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Since "Everyone swore this would solve my problems", why are you complaining
to us? Go complain to Everyone.

 

[khopek]

The reason I am not dealing with Microsoft any further is because I am
not going to pay for their help on something that should not be an
issue in the first place. And apparently they did not know what they
were talking about as I am STILL having the same problems.

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

I'm getting fed up with this....
I have been having so many problems on my business computer running XP
Home and Microsoft POS, that I went out and wasted $300 on XP Pro.
Everyone swore this would solve my problems....So I completely
reinstalled the Operating System and reformated the hard drive with 2
partitions this time, instead of one. One partition soley for the OS.

Things worked fine. BUT...since I have employees that use this
computer, I needed to make different user accounts. The MINUTE I did
this, not one single program will open. And if, after 10 minutes
something DOES open, it runs so slow you can't use it and the system
freezes.

The only way I can manage to get programs to run successfully is if I
Click the Program Icon, Right Click, and push 'Run As.' A window will
then pop up asking me;:

"Which user accound do you want to use to run this program?"
1) Current User
2)The Following User:

Underneath option 2 there is a drop down menu of the user accounts on
this computer and I must Click Administrator, then type in the
Administrator password, to get the programs to run.

This is the only way programs will run and it completely defeats the
purpose of user accounts if all my employees have to have the
Administrator password to get anything to work.

Someone please help me. I cannot waste anymore time with this as I was
already down a week with no system and had to completely redo my
inventory because my database was corrupted. Somehow it was not
registering the backups everytime. (Like I said I've been having
horrible problems with XP and Microsoft POS)

You first have to have the maturity to rationally work through the issue,
which apparently you don't have.

There are many thousands of computers running multiple accounts, with
different levels of permission, etc. The difference is that on those
machines, the accounts were set up properly.

In your case, since you seem to lack patience, I would suggest searching
eBay for pixie dust or a magic wand.

Your problem is easy to fix. Had you not ranted, called names, and expect
instant gratification without any effort or thought on your part, someone
probably would have posted the simple instructions to fix it. You would
only have complained about it...

Bobby